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== Overview ==

This lab is designed to give you first-hand experience using [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org Bugzilla] and doing application testing using [http://litmus.mozilla.org Litmus].

Mozilla uses [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Test_Day Community Test Days] in order to test new releases of Firefox or Thunderbird.  The goal of these is to get as many people as possible looking at a feature, hoping to confirm bugs or find new ones through a structured approach.  Often these Test Days have a particular focus, for example, Session Store, Anti-Phishing, or Tabbed Browsing.  Test days are also a chance to write functional test cases, or to help us edit [http://carstenbook.googlepages.com/testcase-documentation.html test cases] that need revising as features change.

Mozilla also hosts [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Bug_Day Bug Days], which are used to do bug triage (i.e., confirming reported bugs, checking for duplicates, etc.).

Finally, the QA team is also interested in [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community#Community_Mini-Projects small projects] with well defined scopes to engage people who are interested in slightly more technical challenges within QA. For example, one recent project that was announced was the [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Talkback_Report_Challenge_1 Talkback Report Challenge].  This is a project whose aim is to make it easier to read Talkback crash reports.

== Instructions ==

* Pick one of the following two community activities to work on:
:* Community Test Day (March 1, 2007): http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Seneca_Event_030107
:* Talkback Report Challenge: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Talkback_Report_Challenge_1

Use IRC to co-ordinate with other students in the class, as well as the Mozilla community on-line.

== Resources ==
* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community Mozilla QA Community]
* [http://carstenbook.googlepages.com/Litmus-Tutorial.html A Litmus primer]
* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Test_Case_Writing_Day_Guidelines Guidelines for Writing Test Cases]